Improvement in shelf-brackets and clothes-hooks



, 'einen e site fitheid affine HENRY. E. HUTGHI/NSON, OF SOUTH BROOKLYN, NEW `YORK.

LettersPatent No. 110,239, dated December 20, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHELF-BRACKETS AND CLOTHES-HOOKS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and-making part:l of the same.

being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification.

The figure is a side view of my improved bracket and hooks.

My invention has for its object to furnish au improved bracket for use in clothes-closets and other places, which'shall be so constructed as to support a l shelf, and at the same time' serve as hooks for hangin'g clothes, and which shall economize space by allowiig a greater quantity of clothes to be hung upon t em than can be hung in the same space when the ordinary clothes-hooks are used; -and l `It consists in thecombined shelf-bracket and clotheshooks constructed as hereinafter more fully described.

A is the horizontal, and B, the inclined arm ofthe bracket, which meet each other at an acute angle.

- Upon the free ends of the arms`A and B are formed `feet a b in line with each other, and at right angles with the horizontal arm A.

The feet a' b' have holes formed in them to receive the screws by which the bracket is secured to the wall of the room.A Y

Upon; the inclined arm B are formed hooks C, any

desired nnmber of which may be used, according to the size of the bracket.

rlhe hooks may be in the, same vertical plane, or they may be inclined or bent .alternately to the right and left, 'as may be desired. a A

Their arms A and B may have a rib ruiming along their inner sides, which form gives them'gre'ater strength with a less axnonnt of metal.

rlhe entire bracket is designedto be Ycast solid in one piece, and may be made plain or ornamented; as may bc desired.

Instead of making the inclined arm B straight, the hooks G may curve from one to another, giving the arm a scroll forni, or it may be made ornamental in any other` manner.

The horizontal ailn A may have holes formed in it to receive screws to hold theshelt` in place `upon it, as indicated by dotted lines in the figure.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Let-ters Patent- An improved combined shelf-bracket and clotheshooks A B G, constructed and'operating substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

The above specicat-ion of my invent-ion signed by me this 22d day of November, 1870.

HENRY E. HUTOHINSON.

Vitnesses JAMES T. GRAHAM, GEO. W. MABEE. 

